Assignment C
Question 1
Forces
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Explanation
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Impact
of the force to the business
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Bargaining
Power of Buyers
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Parents
are the buyers.
Parents
can choose other kindergarten that offer cheaper education package, similar
basic learning, high quality facilities and nursing services that suits their
need and budget.
Example
other kindergarten also offer nursing to the parents who need to be away from
their children when they are working. The cost of the education package is
also similar with other kindergarten.
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High
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Bargaining
Power of Suppliers
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The
cost of the inputs can have a significant effect on the kindergarten
profitability. Supplier demand higher price and provide less services.
Kindergarten
has option to go for other services that offer lower price that suits their
budget.
Example
of suppliers is kindergarten require teachers to provide basic education to
the children, class room catering to supply food , books to give basic
education skills, transportation, and also services such as nursing.
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Low
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Competitors
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The
competitor is the other existing kindergarten.
When
the competitive force is weak, kindergarten may able to raise price, provide
less product for the price, and earn more profits.
Example
other kindergarten can provides high quality facilities, better services and
program, and also better qualification certificate for children with better
competitive rate. These can easily attract the parent’s choices to go for
other kindergarten.
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High
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Substitutes
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Type
of services that provide from this kindergarten cannot be replaced by services
from another.
Example
this service cannot be replaced because every parents will sent their
children to kindergarten for early learning. Early learning is the basic
education that needed by all the children before they can enter their primary
school so
it
is not possible.
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Low
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New
entrants
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New
entrant is the new kindergartens that enter the market.
Entrants
bring a desire to gain market share and often have significant resources.
Example
the chances to open a new kindergarten is easy because it is high necessity
among children for early learning and always be demand therefore it is easy
for new kindergarten to break into the market.
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High
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Question 2
Forces to be addressed
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Competitive
Strategy to be applied
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Recommended
system that supported by IT/IS
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Buyers
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Innovation
can develop new product and service and fine new way of doing business.
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Provide
portal in which close circuit television camera is available where parents
can see their children development easily.
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Competitors
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Cost
leadership which can provide product or services at the lowest cost in the
kindergarten.
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Use
transactional processing system to do online payment for payroll and customer
billing for parents.
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New
entrants
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Differentiation which the product or services must
be unique and outstanding to sustain customer preference and loyalty.
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Use
computer and provide basic learning for the children using you tube so that
they can learn in a fast way and entertain them as well.
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Question 3
1)
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WELCOME
TEACHER/
TEAM LEADER(MAGGIE TAN)
>WHATS NEW:
*The ABC blog
*Todays feedback
>STUDENTS INFO
SYSTEM:
* Child's name
* Age
>PARENTS BLOG
*todays progress
>STUDENTS
PROGRESS
*this week test
results
*Communication speaking skills
>ACTIVITIES OF
THE STUDENTS
*This week
organizing activities
(When the teacher or
team leader enter to this blog she will knows the overall feedback and the special needs of the requirements needed by the students and the
backgrounds of the family.When Maggie Tan click on the boxes it will send her
to the deeper link and by this Maggie Tan can have a better interaction among
the students.)
2.
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MR&MRS SMITH
>STUDENT
INFO
*Child name
* Age
>PARENTS
INFO
*Dad's name
Occupation
Age
Contact number
Home address
* Mum's name
Occupation
Age
Contact number
Home address
>SCHEDULE OF
THE WEEK
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
>SAFETY THAT
ARE GIVEN
*CCTV IS
FIXED IN THE CLASSROOM
• To ensure that the parents knows what are the child
were doing during the moment and this cctv can be access to internet via parents
handphone and laptops for 24 hours.
*ID IS
PROVIDED
• Each parents
will be providing ID to pick up their child and this is to ensure nothing bad
happens to their child
>DAILY
ACTIVITIES THAT ARE PROVIDED AT THE CENTRE VIA
*MANAGEMENT
•Management will inform to Mr&Mrs
Smith about their child progress overoll and this is to ensure that Mr&Mrs
Smith won't be worrying about their child progress.
*TEACHER
•Their class
teacher will be updating emails according to each of their child subject to
ensure the parents will be updated about their child progress.
*When Mr&Mrs Smith click on the boxes it will send
them to their respective side which is in circle.This is to ensure that
Mr&Mrs Smith will understand every detail about the information in this
portal.Mr&Mrs Smith is require to click the circle so that they will
further understand about the link.This is to ensure that Mr&Mrs Smith will
understand more about their child pre school education and child care
facilities
3.
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WELCOME
GEETHA RAJ
>STUDENT INFO
*Child name
* Age
>PARENTS
INFORMATION
*Dad's name
Age
Occupation
* Mom's name
Age
Occupation
>STAFF INFORMATION(staff that are only available for
the casual care)
*Staff name
*Contact number
>OUTSTANDING
PAYMENT
PARENTS NAME
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CHILD'S NAME
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OUTSTANDING PAYMENT
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LARRY
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CANTRY
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PAID
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*When Miss Geetha enter to this
website she will know the whole detail about the child who have enter to her
casual care centre.She will also know the updates about the fees collection of
the month and this can make miss geetha easily to identify which ever child
haven't pay the fees.When Miss Geetha click on the boxes it will send her to
the specific places.
4.
4.
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WELCOME
Mrs
Doubtfire
>STUDENTS
WHO IS NOT WELL AND UNDER YOUR(MRS DOUBTFIRE) CARE
*Name
*Age
>PARENTS
INFORMATION
*Dad's name
Age
Occupation
Contact number
* Mom's name
Age
Occupation
Contact number
>WHAT
MEDICINE THAT MUST BE GIVEN TO THE SPECIFIC STUDENTS WHO IS NOT WELL
NUMBER
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STUDENTS NAME
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AGE
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MEDICINE THAT
MUST BE GIVEN
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1)
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LINDA
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4
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Having fever(give medicine every 3 hours)
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*When Ms Doubtfire click over the
link which is in circle it
will send her to the specific link which is more
deeper.It will
list out the medicine that must be given to the
specific students according to their age as shown as above so that Ms Doubtfire
won't get confused by giving out the right medicine on time to the right
students.
Question 4
The potential
issues the company may face in implementing the new IS is:
THE SELECTION
PROBLEM
Kindergarten
&Childcare has decided for many reason to launch a manegerial information
system implementation project.Managers will face is what type ,size,and scope
of the future system they actually require and how to choose the most suitable
solution among hundreds offered on the market.There is no single answer on how
to company tries to deliver the best value,as well presenting its core eBestMatch
decision and a long list of other
supplementary services.
TECHNICAL
ISSUES
How to
successfully select a software package is important but not the last problem
that will appear on the thorny path toward getting all of the system software
and hardware working together and bringing any value back to the
kindergarten.Another set of implementation issues is related to the technical
part of the project,and covers the servers and workstations to be revised and
probably the new and modern ones to be the ordered,purchased,and replaced.The
internal network also has to be analyse and modernized if required.If these
question are underestimated,they can dramatically impact the overoll result of
the project and the easily delay the "happy hour", or poison the
first week of using a new system with slow performance,resulting in a
slackening of the existing pace of kindergaten.
DATA QUALITY
ISSUES
This issues is
particularly symptomatic of kindergarten that are implementing planning and
requirements analysis for the first time and transferring their legacy data
into the new system from excel spreadsheets,manual records,or old disparate
applications.Basically, the question is that old data that have been used and
stored for years can for many reasons appear approximate or even incorrect in
the new planning and requirements analysis
reality.
BUSSINESS
PHILOSOPHY CHANGES
Planning and
requirements analysis implementation brings significant changes into a
kindergarten & childcare conventional and the day to day practices it has
been using for years or even decades.With the new system,information that a
user enters in one screen becomes immediately available to other uses.